The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-12-29

walking, or IN puglliStic encounter, exclteS
only our contempt; but we confess to great
admiration for the man who has great
soul in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle
and bone OF which is coasecrated to right
uses. Oh, ii seems to me outrageous that
men, through neglect, should allow their
physical health to go down beyond repair. A
ship which ought, with all sail set and every
man at his post to be carrying q rich cargo
for eternity employing all its men in stopping
up leakages When you may through the
gymnasium, work Off your spleen and your
querulousness and one-half OF your physical
ana mental ailments do not turn your back
upon such grand medieament.
Still further; commend TO you large
class OF parlor games and recrea,ions, There
Is way of making our homes a hundred
fold more attractive than they are now.
Those parents cannot expect to keep their
children away from outside designations I'M
less they make the domestic circle brighter
than anything they can find outside of it. Do
not then, sit in your home surly and unsym-
pathetic, and with u half coudemnatory looSs
because of the sportfulnesi OF your children.
You were young once yourself; let your chill
dren be young. Because your eyes are dim
and your ankles are stiff do not denounce
sportfuness in those upon whose eye there is
the first lustre and in whose foot there is
the bounding joy of robust health l thank
God that in our drawing and in our
sports which have not upon them the least
faint of iniquity, Light up all your homes
with innocent hilarties. Do not sit down
with the rheumatism, wondering how
children can go on So Rather thank God
that their hearts are so light and their
laughter is so free, and that their cheeks are
so ruddy and that their expectations are so
radiant. The night will come soon enough
and the heartbreak, and the pang, and the
dpSOlatiOn-ik will an oh or ha
dear children But when the storm actually
clouds the sky it will be time enough for
you to haul out your reef tackles. Carry,
then, into your homes not only the innocent
sports and games which are the inventions of
our own day, but the games which come
down with the spor.fulnes, of all the past
ages-chess and caarades, and tableaux and
battledore, and calisthenics, and lawn tennis
and all those amusements which the young
people of our homes know so well how to
contrive. Then there will be the parlor soc-
alities-groups of people assembled in your
homes, with wit and mmicry and joviality,
filling the room with joy from the door to
the mantel and from the carpet to the CELL
ing. Oh! is there any exhilaration like a
score of genial souls in one room, each one
adding a contribution of his own individual
merriment to the aggregation of general
hilarityl
Suppose you want to go abroad in the city,
then you will find the panorama and the art
gallery and exquisite collections of pictures
You win find the Metropolitan Museum and
the Historical Society rooms full of rare Curl
osities, and scores of places which can stand
plainly the test of what is right and wrong in
amusements. You will find the lecturing
hall, which has been honored by the names
of Agassiz in natural history, Doremus in
chemistry, Boynton in geology, Mitchell in
astronomy, John B. Cough in neral reform,
and scores and hundreds of men who have
poured their wit and genius and ingenuity
through that particular channel upon the
hearts and consciences and imaGinations OF
men, setting this country fifty years farther
in advance than it would have been without
the lecture platform.
rejoice in the popularization OF outdoor
sports. l hail the croquet ground and the
fisherman's rod and the sportsman'S gun. In
our cities life is so unhealthy and unnatural
that when the census taker represents a city
as having 500 900 inhabitants, there are only
400, COO, since it takes at least two men to
amount to one man. so depicting and unnerv
ing and exhausting is this metropolitan life.
We want more fresh air, more sunlight, more
of the abandon of field sports. cry out for
it in behalf of the church of God as well as in
behalf Of secular interests l wish that this
winter our ponds and our rivers and our
Capitoline grounds might be all awak, with
the heel and the shout of the swift skater.
wish that when the warm weather comes the
fha aven;,,n uLp viz ie',ih am
boatman,. sona +i pe Iesohah' viii
splitting the crystalline billow. We
we will call ont paonle of all flows anu
professions, and nj tbar' 70 ioi, Il; ,ho anii
pIsver,s SNORT W, Iii ~ JIM II She oaii
these outdoor exercises and to,, ,,ti,
strength in your arm, and color in your
cheek. and flash in your eye, and courage
in your heart. In this great battle that is
want not only consecrated sorI b,,t .
strong arm and stout i,nrs e,,a sou', , nuo
muscle. I bless God that 7bera ~ A ,,a
80. w. eio % many
recieaIlons thao Ia ao1 on tnsn any taint
oa inlqut.y' ~ mhitn t We Inv ny
,oi .ne % ~ oa Ihe iN'o"eo0' io' '"o AN"
There is still another form of recreation
which commend to you, and that is the
pleasure of doing good. have seen young
men weak and cross and sour and repelling
in their disposition who, by one heavenly
touch, have Weakened up and lecome blessed
and buoyant, the ground under their feet and
the sky over their heads breaking forth into
music "Oh," says some young man in the
house to-day, 81 shou'd like that recreation
above all others, but have not the means"
My dear brother, let us take an account of
stock this morning. You have large estate,
if you only realizeit. Two hands Two feet
y on will have, perhaps, during the next year,
at least $40 for charitable contribution. You
will have twenty-five hundred cheerful looks,
if you want to employ them. You will have
five thousand pleasant words. if you want to
speak them. Now, what all amount flat is
to start with.
You so out tomorrow morning AMI you
see case of real restitution by the way
side. You give him two cents. The blind
man hears the pennies rattle in his hat and
he says: Thank you, sir; God bless you"
d; S pass ,u@n Inc ~ go, 5ths " !ook m
Of rn,I,. coil f,,,,,d a's Vn
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rnIy t,,,i,r ~ oa4 - 'oJ vi IN .
Ea f,iis in fto st.o,,,,'t v. 'ho S.
baci, ~ ia .le ,at ,,,a y" tai,u
''N0A' my '''' NV i''0 wy A'u push ~ up
on the curbstone for him, and pass on. He
wonders who that well dres 3ed man was that
helped him. You did kindness to the boy,
but you did great ioy to your own soul.
You will not get over it all the week.
On the street to- morrow morning YOU will
see sick man passing along "Ah," You say,
w nav can 90 TO make TINS man happy! he